Meat-tenderer.



S. S. PHELPS.

' MEAT TENDERER.

APPLICATION FILED JANL5,1911.

Patented July 15,1913.

S. PHELPS, HOMINY, OKLAHOMA.

MEAT-TENDERER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1913.

Application filed January 5, 1911. Serial No. 600,930.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SUSAN S., PFELPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hominy, in the county of Osage, State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Meat-Tenderers;

and I do be a full, clear, and 8X3"? description of the invent-ion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to meat, tenderers, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device of this character of improved construction and increased efficiency and utility.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character so constructed that the parts, may be readily disconnected for cleansing or to renew broken or impaired parts.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features hereby declare the following to of construction as hereinafter shown and described and ther. specifically pointed out in the claim; and, in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figural is a top plan view of the im proved evice, Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same, Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the improved device, Big. 4 is a transverse section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1, Fig.5 is a perspective view of one of the cutting blades disconnected.

The improved device com rises a body or base plate 10 havin a handle 11 extending from one side, the ate and its handle being preferably formed metal, preferably steel. The body of the plate 10 is provided with a plurality of transversely arranged slots 12 spaced apart, as shown. Fitting through each of the slots is a blade 13, each blade having' a plurality of cutting members 14 extending from its lower edge and with notches 15-16 in its ends. The portion of each'blade 13 which is located between the notches 1516 extends from below through one of the slots 12 with the shoulders formed by the notches 15-16 bearing against the under-face of the plate. Each of the blades 13 is provided in one piece of sheet with two or more and tie bolts 19 apertures, as shown, each of the tie bolts having a head 20 at one end and a binding nut 21 at the other end. By this means the blades 13 are firmly secured in position and locked to the base 10; The blades 13 will be arranged in two series, each blade of one series having a cutting member 14 less than the other series, so that when the two sets apertures 18 near the ends.

- of blades are arranged alternately, the cutting members 14 will likewise be arranged alternately as shown in Fig. 2, or the cutting members of each alternate blade disposed opposite the spaces between the cutting members of the remaining blades. By this means the cutting surface is broken, as

shown in Fig. 2. By this arrangement it will be obvious that a simply constructed meat tenderer is produced in which the parts are rigidly coup ed, while at the same time the b ades are readily separable when the device requires cleansing, or when one of the blades is broken or impaired. Thus a broken or impaired blade may be readily replaced without discarding the body 10 or other parts. By this means the life of the improved implement is extended indefinitely, as one body 10 and its handle 11 will outwear a number of sets of blades 13-, as will be obvious. By this arrangement also blades having different widths of cutting members may be employed. The body 10 may be of any required size, and by means of which beef steak and similar products may be macerated to sever the tough portions and render otherwise tough beef steak palatable. It will be noted that the head and nut of each of the bolts 19 bear forcibly upon the body 10 and serve to force the body snugly into the notches of the blade and thus positively prevent annoying rattling of the blades.

What is claimed is:

A meat tenderer comprising a back plate having a handle, said plate being provided with a transverse slot terminating short of the side edges of the plate, a blade in said slot projecting above and below said back plate and having the upper corners formed with notches, the bottom walls of said are extended through the notches bearing against the bottom face of I11 testimony whereof, I afiix my sigma-- said back plate beyord the ends of said slot ture, in presence of two Witnesses.

and the side wal s 0 said notches bearin a against the end Walls of said slot, and a; SUSAN L securing pin passed transversely through \Vitnesses: said blade and bearing against the top face M. C. GRovE, of said backplate 7 JAMES WILSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

